Seattle PI: "Indications add up to government conspiracy"

The author James Morgante, we are told, is "is with Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, Seattle":

The case for complicity begins with motive and benefit. In his 1997 book "The Grand Chessboard," Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the key to global dominance in the 21st century lies in control of Central Asian oil and gas reserves. Establishing a U.S. presence there would require the kind of military deployment that only "a direct external threat" could justify.

And in a 2000 paper titled "Rebuilding America's Defenses," Project for a New American Century, whose founding members were Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, argued for vast increases in military spending to assure American global dominance. Such a process, PNAC said, would take time absent "a catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor." Military deployment into Central Asia followed 9/11, as well as their desired increases in military spending.

Some of the usual reasons follow: fire should not have caused the buildings to collapse, somebody's warning was ignored, the airforce should have stopped the attack, etc. This is the usual conspiracy slop: An offhand reference to a "catalyzing event" is taken as evidence that the government sought to create one. Some part of the events of 9/11 must be held to be physically impossible. (This is an indispensable feature of any conspiracy theory: one gunman could not have killed Kennedy, one bomb could not have brought down the Murrah building in Oklahoma City, the Nazis would have died themselves from the gas pellets, etc, etc.) Failure of a government agency is treated as a great mystery. And there is no consideration of how vast such a conspiracy would have to be. Didn't the conspiracy inadvertently take even one honest person into its confidence who would have blown the whistle, providing some, you know, evidence? The faction on the left that thinks this way seems to be growing. Very disturbing.

Tags: conspiracy theories, 9/11, The Left, PNAC